William Henry Danforth Quotes

Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.

The Second Green Revolution, as the world's population grows to over 9 billion by 2050, is the new revolution we have to have to lift food production by another 75 percent.

Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.

It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.

Every second of every day there are three new mouths to feed in this world.

For the first time we have the technical capacity to free mankind from the scourge of hunger.

Consumers cannot enjoy the prices and variety we farmers produce without embracing the technologies we use.

The best way to feed the world in 50 years is population control

The agricultural interest of our country is so essentially connected with every other and so superior in importance to them all that it is scarcely necessary to invite to it your particular attention.

We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.

To affordably feed the next billion people, we must have higher-yielding crops with even greater nutritional value. America should be at the vanguard of the innovative advances that will make this happen.

People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.

There is talk about the need for a second Green Revolution. However, such a revolution is nowhere in sight.

Bayer CropScience aims to lead the way in sustainable crop solutions, and we are heavily investing in R&D, as well as production capacities, to respond to global demand for differentiated crop solutions.

Agriculture can trigger job-led economic growth, provided it becomes intellectually satisfying and economically rewarding.

So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied. We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will.

The challenge of ensuring adequate, nutrient-rich food for an expanding global population is a daunting one, especially given constraints on key resources like water and agricultural land.

I simply believe that food is a human right.

The Safe and Affordable Food Labeling Act aims to address unnecessary impediments to feeding the world.

Surely, if we are going to be better at producing food of the right value, then we have to accept that genetic technology... is going to be part of that.

We don't need to cure hunger - we know how to solve hunger - it's food, it's nutrition, and it's really a question of access.

GMOs play a central role in meeting the challenge of providing affordable and nutritious food to consumers all over the world.

There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.